Define The Short Bus Meaning

Slow thought process. It refers to the bus that transports the disabled kids to and from school, not to be confused with the senior citizen's bus.

Generally, the short bus is a smaller version of a regular school bus that carries mentally challenged students to school. On rare occasions, if your school board is a bunch of assholes (like mine), you will be forced to ride in a short bus for field trips if you class contains less than 18 students.

School vehicle meant for special education students. Many are equipped with wheelchair lifts. Most seats are equipped with restraining belts.

A bus that people who can't spell derogatory take.

A horizontally challenged bus that people have become accustomed to watching pick up developmentally challenged children and adults. Cleverly worked into an insult when someone does something stupid.

The Short Bus is the bus you see people with special needs riding on. Sometimes referred to as ‘The Sunshine Bus’.

The bus i rode to school. Its a little bus for the special kids. We had lots of fun on that bus and you make good friends. People sometimes make fun of it but its really a cool bus. Its yellow.

The idea of 'riding the short bus' is used in American English in much the same way that 'æåëòûé äîì' (yellow house) is used in Russian as a reference to mentally retarded children. United States public school systems have an extensive bus program to transport children to and from school. Regular buses hold large amounts of children. Shorter buses are typically used for "Special Education" (i.e., the mentally retarded) public school students who are typically educated in different facilities.

A small bus that is not always used for transporting special education students. It is also used in small school districts in which it would be wasteful to use a full size bus every day.

The "special" kids got to ride this bus. Those with mental difficulties, and those who were "not all there"